Category: News

An early morning accident yesterday near Seneca created a traffic detour that lasted until late in the afternoon.  According to the highway patrol, a pickup truck left SC 28, the Blue Ridge Boulevard at the Bountyland intersection and hit two power poles.  Trooper Bolt said the driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was taken to the hospital.  The accident […]

Three Oconeeans are among 36 South Carolinians whose lives were lost to COVID-19. Sunday’s DHEC numbers indicate a middle-aged Oconeean’s death resulted from the virus on Thursday, December 17; and two elderly Oconeeans died Monday, December 14 and Wednesday, December 16.  The statewide case count yesterday rose by 2,583; 61 of those cases are Oconee County residents.  Total test results […]

All branches of the Oconee County Public Library will be closed Thursday, December 24, through Monday, December 28, for the Christmas holiday. All branches will also be closed on Friday, January 1, 2021, for New Year’s Day. Branches resume their current regular hours on Monday, January 4. Book returns will be open during the holiday closures, and e-books and e-magazines […]

A boil water advisory for certain customers of Pioneer Rural Water has been lifted.  It means that customers no longer need to boil their water for drinking or cooking in the following district areas:  Stone Pond subdivision, Calm Oak Drive, Deer Knoll Way, and Serria Way.  According to the Friday night announcement from the Pioneer Rural Water District, system pressure […]

In Saturday’s report, South Carolina DHEC noted 2,919 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, along with 16 deaths.  Of new cases, there were 78 Oconee County residents.  Of 12,767 test results statewide received, the positivity was 22.9%.

Until 5 this afternoon, the non-emergency phone lines to the Clemson city police department are out of order.  The alternative number to call is 864/444-3319.  The emergency line 911 remains operational.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Fair Play yesterday on multiple charges in relation to three separate traffic enforcement incidents.   23 year old Cainnan Alan Black of W. Pine Grove Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 9:24am Thursday.  At this time, Black remains in custody at the Detention Center on a combined $80,300.00 surety […]

When it comes to new and probable cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, today’s are a record setter.  State health officials are lamenting over a record high new and probable cases statewide of 3,778 and 29 deaths, including an elderly Oconeean who died December 15.  Of new confirmed cases, 76 are Oconee County residents.  Total SC test results received:  14,060; […]

An Oconee County man was ordered to prison for seven years after pleading guilty to unlawful neglect of a child.  Ronald Glenn Christen was arrested in 2019 after a one-year old child, Rhyder Peay, was discovered dead October 1, 2019 at 374 Bright Eyes Drive, Westminster. The sentence handed down last week in the General Sessions Court requires Christen to […]

A Walhalla woman, Stephanie Jackson, spearheaded a Toys for Tots drive among her fellow workers at Oconee’s Lift Tech manufacturing plant and was able to collect enough donations to buy $5,600 worth of gifts for children.  Twenty-four kindle tablets and 51 bicycles are being distributed this week.  One Lift Tech worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, donated about half of […]